Ayame Kuromiya

Ayame Kuromiya (Kuromiya Ayame | 黒宮菖蒲) is a young and mute fanloid character created back in 2018, later redesigned in 2021.

Creation
Ayame, or Yami for short was first created back in 2018, when Ari was 11 years old and had a severe obsession to Kagamine Rin and Len. Back then Ayame had another name with the use of Google Translate translated to "beautiful woman." Ari got inspo from YandereDev to use Google Translate. Ari, later on, found Ayame's base design buried in her files, and not liking the Google Translated name, Ari changed her name to Ayame Kuromiya, with her name hinting to her color scheme.

Ayame was born without a voice, so they communicate through text or a notebook in canon universe. However, she also expresses using her expressive face, so it may be easy to tell when she's upset, angry, or happy.

Ari later on felt like Ayame should have a few covers, but wondered how that would work if Ayame is canonically mute. She then crafted an alternate universe for Ayame. In this alternate universe, Ayame DOES have a voice, it being a higher pitched version of the Kagamine Rin voicebank. Ayame is much more talkative in this universe, and loves any genre of song.

Ayame was originally planned to be 15 years old to fit her feelings for Len, HOWEVER, Ari felt it would be too hard to remember her age as she is canonically aging. (and in Ayame's universe, the cryptonloids are also aging to not make it weird.) So, Ari made her age unconfirmed, ranging between 14-18.

Ari later on concluded Ayame would sometimes refer to herself as "Yami" to shorten down her name and use it as some sort of online nickname. However, in person, Ayame would prefer strangers to refer to her as Ayame, and only lets close friends refer to her as Yami.

Appearance
Ayame's design still stays true to her 2018 design. She has brown shoulder length hair, with purple streaks. They wear a white bow (in reference of Kagamine Rin) and wear different styles depending on the art. But the color scheme always stays grey, black, and purple. Their main clothes consist of a grey collared shirt with a large, unzipped black hoodie.

This has never been shown, but Ayame's collared up shirt is actually long sleeved. They wear a faded purple tie and a short black skirt. She wears white, below knee-length socks and gray and black shoes with purple accents. They also wear a purple band on one of her arms that says: "A-06 Ayame Kuromiya"

In the future, Ayame ditches the ponytail in place for two buns. On the two buns, there are two mini bows in reference to her younger design. She wears two hair clips on the two sides of her streaks. She wears the same jacket of her youth, however, she now keeps the sleeves curled up and wears long, fingerless gloves with the "A-06" her armband once said.

She has a longer, purple skirt and wears black stockings with black shoes with purple accents. She has a small star under her right eye, it is makeup as Aika sports a heart under her eye in the future. At this point in time, Ayame is persuing teaching sign language to students.

Despite some art showing her to have a large bust, it is mainly an anatomy error, as Ari is still learning to draw better anatomy. Ayame canonically has B-cups, which isn't a huge bust size.

Etymology
"Ayame" (菖蒲) translates to "iris" which hints at the purple in her color scheme. "Kuromiya" (黒宮) translates to "black shrine" which also hints to her black/grey-ish clothing.

Aririri
Ayame is considered Ari's adopted kid, and Ari considers Ayame as her "pride and joy." Ari spent hours designing Ayame, future and present, and feels complete when others appreciate Ayame's existence. Ayame is more drawn than Aika, appearing more on Ari's instagram than Aika has. Ari likes to tell others that Ayame will forever be her baby.

Kagamine Len/Rin
Ayame is mutuals with the two. However, she is closer with Len than to Rin, as Yami sometimes feels like's she's copying Rin. The three met during a Kagamine concert, with Ayame slipping a note to Rin. Rin got in touch with Ayame and became mutuals with the twins. Ayame has feelings for Len, but hides it in fear he'll reject her. It's up to the fans what direction Ayame will take.

Hatsune Miku
Ayame slightly envys Miku because Miku is always in the spotlight and has a stellar voice. However, the two would be considered somewhat good friends.

Akita Neru
Neru is Ayame's good friend, they communicate through text and can spend hours talking in text, as both love being on some sort of device. Ayame has a small crush on her, thus the Magnet teaser.

Atua Zairyo
Confirmed by both creators, Zairyo and Ayame are pretty good friends.

Aika Sakaguchi
Aika is Ayame's closest friend. Ayame would protect her no matter what. Ayame and Aika are both part of the Magenta Raspberries, a little band they made with their friend Naomi. Ayame is the guitarist of the band.

Personality
Ayame has no canon personality, but her creator headcanons them as someone who could appear shy first-glance, but is actually quite social and excited, despite not having a voice, they like the world of social media and spends most of their time there, they are also quite sensitive, when the topic of them not having a voice is mentioned, they become less active in the conversation. She has canonical feelings for Kagamine Len, however, it's up to the fans on how she approaches these feelings.

She can either be direct, flirting with Len every chance she gets, or be the timid type, hiding away her feelings until he begins to notice. Ayame and Len are NOT canon, as Len is a cryptonloid and Ayame is purely a fanloid, but if a fan would like to perceive them as a couple, they are absolutely allowed to.

Appearances

 * vfloarts (on Instagram) - Ayame's creator's art account. Ari tends to draw Ayame once in a while.
 * shodoesartstuffz (on Instagram) - during a OC drawing challenge, Sho drew Ayame as Ari had submitted Ayame as her answer.



Trivia

 * Ayame normally goes by Yami
 * Ayame's hair bow is a reference to their first ever design, which was a Rin recolor.
 * Ayame has a small ponytail to the side
 * Ayame's character item is a video game controller, but her food item is purple grapes.
 * Ayame hates the topic of how they're mute and wants to be treated like a regular person.
 * Ayame's favorite colors are lavender and gray
 * Ayame is confirmed to have feelings for Kagamine Len, but as explained in "Personality", he pretends the feelings don't exist or he's just oblivious to it.
 * In AU, Yami has a voice (Higher-pitched Kagamine Rin)